Rob gave the Fandom a challenge on Thursday: work out what the episode on the board is and win $100, and he gave us exactly twenty-four hours to do so.
Unfortunately, at 5pm on Friday he announced “no one got anywhere close,” which means we’ll have to wait a couple more months to find out how Charlie Day’s cryptic notes end up being the season finale (!!news).
So that should have been the end of that. No one got close, ah well, put on your clown noses if you were convinced you’d cracked it and take another look at Charlie’s board if you’re really that obsessed. But not me because 1) I’m stubborn with a bit of an inflated ego when it comes to knowing Sunny (even the shit that hasn’t hit our eyes yet) and 2) He tweeted this Friday evening while I was a shot of tequila and a few beers deep on an empty stomach.
Now I’m not saying I’m convinced my friends and I got it right regardless of what Rob claims, but my drunk brain was definitely saying that. So I tweeted a reply. And I drank some more and I tweeted my thoughts, and I tweeted I think he’s lying, and I continued to drink while I tweeted some more thoughts, directly to Rob this time, and then an hour passed and I tweeted “release the s16 scripts anyway idk” and then I drank some more. And then Rob McElhenney quoted me.
But before I go any further, let’s back up so I can explain why I drunk tweeted about a release of the Season 16 scripts in the midst of this.
See, Thursday night when I sat down to crack the Season 17 episode, I collaborated with some friends who are just as insane about this show as I am. We spent two hours on the phone, and then another couple hours via text and Notes app to put everything together and come up with what we were pretty certain was the episode Charlie and Rob were writing. Pulling directly from Charlie’s white board, our notes ended up as follows:
- [REDACTED] with Frank
- Clips of Frank [REDACTED] (meeting Girls? Investors?)
- Talks __ too OLD
- Cock chews ages/info
- Sam Frank DATE
- In stocio meets [REDACTED]
- Have two of//tour visit paddy’s
- Dennis/Dee Sam
- Mac/Charlie Sam
- F gang most/meets/moment ch-
- Dennis and Dee w/ Chew
- Mac and Charlie w/ Chew
- Taking last gang
- Dennis brings Charlie’s
- Taking [REDACTED] Frank Begs?
- Frank dumps Sam because she doesn’t put out
- F b,ing Chew / test goes wrong
- To stocio eruption/explanation
- Frank to get ___ to make up
- In [REDACTED]
- Sam = woman Frank is dating
- Cock Chew = BlueChew/viagra/boner pill
- Gang meets Sam and then gets involved with the Chew (pairings Dennis&Dee/Mac&Charlie have different motivations...)
- Dennis goes off with Charlie’s
- Frank can’t test the product because Sam won’t put out
- Eruption/Climax - pills go wrong ?
And the idea basically wrote itself:
"Struggling with erectile dysfunction in his old age, Frank gets the Gang involved in a new product to enhance his sex life.”
Locked in, we tweeted our guess(es) to Rob, and as it was a group effort (and because we really didn’t care about making $100 here, this is all for the love of the game), I followed up on our submission with the following reply:
Which takes us back to the beginning of this story, explaining that one final drunk tweet in all of this, resulting in Rob’s quote tweet:
Yes, the Dropbox contains all of the Season 16 scripts (mostly Production Drafts!), which you can read here.
So, a prize was awarded as a result of this little game, though not exactly directly. But for Rob to understand what my tweet meant means he very likely saw our submission and the reply (and maybe a few of my other drunk tweets, sorry Rob), and offered up the scripts based on that knowledge, giving us exactly what we asked for in the case in which our guess was correct. Which now begs the question: does that… in a way…perhaps somewhat…say something about our guess? Or was this just done purely out of the goodness of his heart, a consolation prize? (Or due to my persistent badgering? Or the fact that he saw I saw drunk at a bar and thought it would be funny to do it now?)
Only time can truly tell, but I do think it’ll be a shame if they never do an episode of Sunny that spoofs on their prior Podcast advertisers…especially one so pertinent to former Sunny dialogue.
But one thing is for certain, it sure will be fun to come back to Charlie Day’s whiteboard once the episode airs! (Or even once we get the synopsis…or even the Season 17 summary…)
Go enjoy those Season 16 scripts!!
-Seth